Terry Deary
Victorian Tales: Terror on the Train
Staplehurst, England, 1865. A piece of railway track over the River Beult at Staplehurst needs replacing. Once the express train…
Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters
1838. History is about to be made. Two steam ships will cross the Atlantic for the very first time. One…
Victorian Tales: The Twisted Tunnels
London, March 1843. Jenny and her Granddad are toshers, that is, scavengers in the sewers, a dangerous and smelly job,…
Victorian Tales: The Fabulous Flyer
Paris, 1852. Henri Giffard, who works in a railway workshop, has invented an incredible new machine. It’s a hydrogen balloon…
Put Out the Light
1940. The Sheffield steel factories are working flat out for the war effort. So far they haven’t been bombed but…
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